If so, it should be kept in mind the record on efficacy of gambling as a revenue source is spotty. Legal gambling states that draw a lot of tourists (Nevada, Mississippi, New Jersey) do pretty well, with proceeds going to education, typically. Others do not, for a variety of reasons, including not have a lot of tourists coming to lose their money in the slots or on the roulette table.

Tip O’Neill famously said that politics is the art of the possible – a statement that could come only from a career politician. Politics is actually the art of deluding self and others, the chief delusion being that natural law can somehow be changed by human law.

That single delusion is the basis for all the bad stuff that governments do. As long as it remains unquestioned and unchallenged, we will have a “continuing crisis” that politicians continue to promise to solve, all the while doing things that guarantee the crisis never ends. Call it job security for the political-power elite.

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